После того, как в Запорожской области пять женщин и один мужчина попали в больницы с диагнозом ботулизм, местные чиновники решили прояснить ситуацию. Причиной они видят вяленого леща, которого продавали в торговых сетях областного центра и Энергодара.
Интересно, что когда появились подозрения на эту испорченную рыбу, товар просто-напросто вернули поставщику, поскольку действует мораторий на проверки. И теперь областные чиновники надеются, что рыба, которую обоснованно подозревают в тяжёлом отравлении людей, не вынырнет ещё где-то.
По мнению обозревателей, медицинская реформа на Украине идёт настолько безалаберно, что ситуация 2015 года повторяется даже в деталях. Тогда не было сывороток от основных тяжёлых инфекций, и люди или умирали, или везли детей в Россию и Белоруссию. Сейчас то же самое: когда в Бердянске в начале мая бродячие собаки покусали двух девушек, то транспортировали их в областной центр. Только в Запорожье нашли остатки запасов антирабического иммуноглобулина.
Что касается ботулизма, то, как заверили на пресс-конференции в Запорожской областной государственной администрации, в государственных медицинских
учреждениях такой сыворотки нет, дескать, каких-то документов для закупки не хватает. Однако родственникам больных порекомендовали обратиться к знакомым
в братской России и привезти сыворотку оттуда. Что последние и сделали, и, благодаря России, пока все пострадавшие от отравления лещом в Запорожской области живы.
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Friday, June 23, 2017
Kiev deludes itself into thinking that privatization brings in capital
By Vladimir V. Sytin
The State Property Fund of Ukraine will hold a competition on July 4 to select experts who could evaluate the state-owned block of shares of the Odessa port chemical plant that is subject to privatization. In addition, the fund has established the commission that is supposed to inventory plant's property until July 25. Readers of The Ukrainian Times know that 99.56% of shares of the Odessa enterprise were estimated at from $800 million to $1.5 billion.
Previously, State Property Fund made the decision to privatize the Black Sea Shipping Company whose fixed assets are estimated at more than 83 million grivnas.
In Soviet times, the state-owned company boasted a fleet of 400 ships. Unfortunately, most ships were transferred to offshore companies during the Kravchuk era of disastrous selloffs. In 1992 the Black Sea Shipping Company had 225 vessels, whereas the only one self-propelled scow Parutine remained at the enterprise by 2008.
The Odessa Regional Economic Court declared bankruptcy of the Black Sea Shipping Company in 2003. In February 2006, the debt-ridden enterprise started undergoing reorganization.
In addition, the plan for privatization of state-owned enterprises envisages the sale of the state water-ways enterprise UstDunaiVodDor and blue-chip companies, such as CentrEnergo (UX: CEEN) valued at $1 billion, the Kharkov-based turbine company Turboatom, which is 75% owned by the state, and the Zaporozhye titanomagnesium plant (51% owned by the state), the only producer of sponge titanium in Europe.
Observers agree that using privatization to cover a short-term budget problem creates a larger long-term problem. The profits of Ukrainian enterprises would flow out of this country, reducing the grivna’s exchange rate. In effect, allowing foreigners to acquire Ukraine’s national assets helps them to speculate against the grivna. Critics say a puppet government’s policy to get foreign loans at any price and to sell off the remnants of Ukrainian industry is the road to nowhere.
According to politologist Paul Craig Roberts, privatization is the vehicle to undercut economic sovereignty and increase profits by raising prices. Today
privatization is a way that government can reward cronies by giving them valuable public resources for a low price. In the United States, deregulation has resulted in high prices and poor services.
In Russia, the government was under a delusion that privatization brings in capital. This delusion caused the Russian government to turn over 20% of its oil company to foreign ownership. The only thing achieved by this strategic blunder was to deliver 20% of its oil profits into foreign hands.
The State Property Fund of Ukraine will hold a competition on July 4 to select experts who could evaluate the state-owned block of shares of the Odessa port chemical plant that is subject to privatization. In addition, the fund has established the commission that is supposed to inventory plant's property until July 25. Readers of The Ukrainian Times know that 99.56% of shares of the Odessa enterprise were estimated at from $800 million to $1.5 billion.
Previously, State Property Fund made the decision to privatize the Black Sea Shipping Company whose fixed assets are estimated at more than 83 million grivnas.
In Soviet times, the state-owned company boasted a fleet of 400 ships. Unfortunately, most ships were transferred to offshore companies during the Kravchuk era of disastrous selloffs. In 1992 the Black Sea Shipping Company had 225 vessels, whereas the only one self-propelled scow Parutine remained at the enterprise by 2008.
The Odessa Regional Economic Court declared bankruptcy of the Black Sea Shipping Company in 2003. In February 2006, the debt-ridden enterprise started undergoing reorganization.
In addition, the plan for privatization of state-owned enterprises envisages the sale of the state water-ways enterprise UstDunaiVodDor and blue-chip companies, such as CentrEnergo (UX: CEEN) valued at $1 billion, the Kharkov-based turbine company Turboatom, which is 75% owned by the state, and the Zaporozhye titanomagnesium plant (51% owned by the state), the only producer of sponge titanium in Europe.
Observers agree that using privatization to cover a short-term budget problem creates a larger long-term problem. The profits of Ukrainian enterprises would flow out of this country, reducing the grivna’s exchange rate. In effect, allowing foreigners to acquire Ukraine’s national assets helps them to speculate against the grivna. Critics say a puppet government’s policy to get foreign loans at any price and to sell off the remnants of Ukrainian industry is the road to nowhere.
According to politologist Paul Craig Roberts, privatization is the vehicle to undercut economic sovereignty and increase profits by raising prices. Today
privatization is a way that government can reward cronies by giving them valuable public resources for a low price. In the United States, deregulation has resulted in high prices and poor services.
In Russia, the government was under a delusion that privatization brings in capital. This delusion caused the Russian government to turn over 20% of its oil company to foreign ownership. The only thing achieved by this strategic blunder was to deliver 20% of its oil profits into foreign hands.
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Designer of unique aerostatic lift-and-carry machine seeks investors
It must be noted that the KPI participated in the project as well. Unfortunately, Ukraine is not ready to complete the project for reasons beyond control.
The project was carried out by Russian and Ukrainian leading aerospace research institutes and organizations. The technical proposal and sketch design of a disk-shaped aerostatic lift-and-carry machine with a hoisting capacity of 250-400 tons (APTS) were made on the basis of the results of research. This work was done to order of the Korolev research and production association Energia while the Ministry of Defense of the U.S.S.R. financed the project. The APTS was included in the State Plan of the Ministry of the Aircraft Industry of the U.S.S.R., and to date it has been seen as the highly efficient and topical project that is unique in world practice. After Ukraine achieved self-determination in 1991, the customer cut off funding and the work within the framework of the project was suspended.
The project is built on the mass-produced, well-mastered Antonov An-12 military transport airplane (NATO codename "Cub"). APTS is distinguished by high performance and a low production cost owing to a small amount of preliminary studies, use of mass-produced devices, equipment, units, materials whose unification accounted for 80%, few skilled personnel that was smaller in number than the group of specialists required to develop and manufacture a dirigible or aircraft with a similar hoisting capacity.
The work, which has been done already, enables any modern aircraft construction company specializing in the design and manufacture of medium and long-range aircraft to complete the project for a short period and at low costs provided the companies have cutting-edge technologies, production capacities, materials, scientific and technical personnel. Reportedly, U.S. and European aircraft construction companies have been taking an active part in the projects of building large cargo aircraft in various countries for many years.
The problem is that such a large-scale project can be implemented by the well-organized, consolidated institution, which incorporates not only investors and consumers but also general makers, suppliers of component parts, financiers, stakeholders and even natural persons. Undoubtedly, it is necessary to start seeking investors and basic manufacturers. This task requires a high professional level, the wide experience of organizational work and management expertise. Work done by the experts who have the above skills is considered as a determining factor at the present stage.
Additional information: abeliants@mail.ru
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
In Trieste, Western Balkan PMs to start forming customs union
As expected, prime ministers of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia will meet in the Italian city of Trieste within the framework of the 4th Berlin Process Summit to sign a document concerning the establishment of the Western Balkan common market. Initially, the agenda is supposed to include a discussion about the integrated digital network that will allow member countries to cut tariffs on roaming services within the single economic area.
Readers of The Ukrainian Times know that Aleksandar Vucic, Prime Minister of Serbia, put forward the initiative to form the Balkan Customs Union. Basic principles of the customs union include the renunciation by member countries of internal tariffs and duties, removal of all restrictions on the movement of goods, as well as the adoption of common customs tariffs.
The documents about the basic principles and terms of operation of the Balkan Customs Union read to the effect that GDP of the countries, which may join the organization, totalled $243.5 billion last year and their population exceeds 18 million. According to Mr. Vucic, the initiative would not only expand a trade turnover within the region but also promote economic growth and a higher standard of living in the member countries of the Balkan Customs Union.
Readers of The Ukrainian Times know that Aleksandar Vucic, Prime Minister of Serbia, put forward the initiative to form the Balkan Customs Union. Basic principles of the customs union include the renunciation by member countries of internal tariffs and duties, removal of all restrictions on the movement of goods, as well as the adoption of common customs tariffs.
The documents about the basic principles and terms of operation of the Balkan Customs Union read to the effect that GDP of the countries, which may join the organization, totalled $243.5 billion last year and their population exceeds 18 million. According to Mr. Vucic, the initiative would not only expand a trade turnover within the region but also promote economic growth and a higher standard of living in the member countries of the Balkan Customs Union.
Monday, June 12, 2017
Avangard makes cutting-edge missile complexes and more
In Russia, the Moscow-based engineering plant Avangard is the only manufacturer of missiles designed for the famous S-300 air defense systems, cutting-edge S-400 and awesomely fantastic S-500 missile complexes. Given that Avangard is the integrated plant, it makes not only missiles but also transport launching containers of these weapons.
In the 1960s, Avangard manufactured the missile designed for the S-75 air defense system that shot down the hawkish John McCain as he flew over a bridge near Hanoi in 1967. He ejected upside down moments before his plane crashed, suffering injuries that have plagued him ever since.
The American aggressor spent more than five years as a prisoner of war. The photo of the naked young Vietnamese girl fleeing down the road in terror from the American napalm behind her made Soviet people aware that Washington's war crimes cry for vengeance. Let McCain's fate be a lesson to other war hawks in the United States and their European vassals.
In the 1960s, Avangard manufactured the missile designed for the S-75 air defense system that shot down the hawkish John McCain as he flew over a bridge near Hanoi in 1967. He ejected upside down moments before his plane crashed, suffering injuries that have plagued him ever since.
The American aggressor spent more than five years as a prisoner of war. The photo of the naked young Vietnamese girl fleeing down the road in terror from the American napalm behind her made Soviet people aware that Washington's war crimes cry for vengeance. Let McCain's fate be a lesson to other war hawks in the United States and their European vassals.
Friday, June 9, 2017
Russia develops infrastructure in Crimea
In addition, the federal highway Taurida 280 kilometers long is under construction in Crimea already. It will connect the cities of Kerch, Simferopol and Sevastopol with the bridge across the Kerch Strait.
Thursday, June 8, 2017
Ideation launches new platform for innovation management
Recently, Ideation Inc., a U.S. company focusing on solutions to help innovators commercialize their innovations, has launched a new platform for innovation management, promotion, licensing, technology transfer and commercialization. It should be mentioned that Ideation is partnering with Ukrainian Global & Trade Investor Inc. in Ukraine to provide local presence for its program.
According to Chief Technology Officer Vic Korsun, Ukrainian scientists may register as Subject Matter Experts (SME). As SME, they can become available for hire as consultants and may be asked to do Patent Assessments. The payment for a Patent Assessment is planned to be $100 for a four-hour technical assessment in good English.
In addition, researchers may be asked to do Contract R&D in their Field of Expertise, as well as they can register recent technologies and products that they believe are valuable for commercial and industrial applications.
Mr. Korsun notes that there will be no charge for any of these services and no commission on transactions unless they are with parties outside of Ukraine in which case a small commission of 7.5% will be charged to compensate parties involved in finding the licensees or clients of technology developed by Ukrainian scientists and services but only once the payment has been received by its authors.
Importantly, the first 50,000 members will be given a lifetime charter membership for free and will be permanently identified as charter members.
Learn more at https://ideation.com/web/
According to Chief Technology Officer Vic Korsun, Ukrainian scientists may register as Subject Matter Experts (SME). As SME, they can become available for hire as consultants and may be asked to do Patent Assessments. The payment for a Patent Assessment is planned to be $100 for a four-hour technical assessment in good English.
In addition, researchers may be asked to do Contract R&D in their Field of Expertise, as well as they can register recent technologies and products that they believe are valuable for commercial and industrial applications.
Mr. Korsun notes that there will be no charge for any of these services and no commission on transactions unless they are with parties outside of Ukraine in which case a small commission of 7.5% will be charged to compensate parties involved in finding the licensees or clients of technology developed by Ukrainian scientists and services but only once the payment has been received by its authors.
Importantly, the first 50,000 members will be given a lifetime charter membership for free and will be permanently identified as charter members.
Learn more at https://ideation.com/web/
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
ГОСКОМТЕЛЕРАДИО ВЫДАЛ БОЛЕЕ СОТНИ РАЗРЕШЕНИЙ НА ВВОЗ ИЗДАТЕЛЬСКОЙ ПРОДУКЦИИ ИЗ РОССИИ
Государственный комитет по телевидению и радиовещанию Украины выдал 112 разрешений на ввоз издательской продукции из России. Почти за два месяца со дня вступления в силу соответствующего постановления Кабинета Министров Госкомтелерадио получил 232 заявления на выдачу разрешений.
Кроме разрешённых, 77 рассмотренных заявлений получили позитивные выводы специалистов Госкомтелерадио, и осуществляется оформление разрешений. Ещё 43 заявки находятся на стадии рассмотрения.
Оформление первых полученных заявлений свидетельствует, что субъекты хозяйственной деятельности, которые осуществляют ввоз издательской продукции из России, ответственно отнеслись к просьбе Госкомтелерадио тщательно подбирать ассортимент продукции. Ни в одном из проверенных изданий не обнаружили информацию, которая нарушает положения статьи 28 Закона Украины «Об издательской деятельности».
Кроме разрешённых, 77 рассмотренных заявлений получили позитивные выводы специалистов Госкомтелерадио, и осуществляется оформление разрешений. Ещё 43 заявки находятся на стадии рассмотрения.
Оформление первых полученных заявлений свидетельствует, что субъекты хозяйственной деятельности, которые осуществляют ввоз издательской продукции из России, ответственно отнеслись к просьбе Госкомтелерадио тщательно подбирать ассортимент продукции. Ни в одном из проверенных изданий не обнаружили информацию, которая нарушает положения статьи 28 Закона Украины «Об издательской деятельности».
Friday, June 2, 2017
Moscow and Beijing deepen many-sided cooperation
By Vladimir V. Sytin
Recently, Russia and China have agreed on construction of the international transit corridor Europe-Western China, the Eurasian high-speed rail link between Moscow and Beijing, as well as the natural-gas pipeline 'Power of Siberia' that is under construction already. "We are consecutively modernizing the sea, railroad and automobile infrastructure, as well as increasing the carrying capacity of the Baikal-Amur Mainline and the Trans-Siberian trunk railroad, investing considerable funds in the development of the Northern Sea route so that it could become a globally competitive transportation artery," said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It is also important to note growing cooperation of the two countries in the field of space exploration, particularly deliveries of Russian rocket engines to China, in the aircraft industry, namely joint construction of a wide-body airplane, and in the military-technical sphere. Plans are in hand to build the Great Asian Power Ring designed for Russia's electricity supplies. Further, China's CNPC and the Silk Road Fund became co-investors of the Yamal LNG project.
According to analyst and geologist Byron King, over the last few years China has deepened its trading roots with Russia and today China pays for Russian oil in yuan. Russia, in turn, uses yuan to buy goods from China.
Beyond trade in goods, within the past six months Russia has set up a branch of the Bank of Russia in Beijing. From there, Russia can use its Chinese yuan to buy gold on the Shanghai Exchange. In a sense, Chinese-Russian oil trade is now backed up by a "gold standard".
James Rickards, editor of the Strategic Intelligence newsletter, wrote that China has the second largest economy in the world, and is by far the fastest growing major economy in the world. Even though growth rates have fallen from 10% to 6.5% in recent years, that 6.5% growth is still enviable, compared with 2% growth in the United States, and less than 1% growth in Europe. China's debt burdens are manageable as long as the growth is there to support the debt.
Previously, politologist Paul Craig Roberts noted that Henry Kissinger sold U.S. president Trump on a scheme to use the removal of Russian sanctions to pry President Putin away from the alliance with Iran and China. Part of the deal being offered to Vladimir Putin is "increased access to the huge European energy market, restored Western financial credit, access to Western technology, and a seat at the global decision-making table, all of which Russia badly needs and wants". Sweetening the honey trap is official recognition of "Crimea as part of Russia". Russia might want all of this, but it is nonsense that Moscow needs any of it.
Europe has scant alternatives to Russian energy. Russia does not need Western technology. Indeed, its military technology is superior to that in the West. And it is a self-serving Western myth that Russia needs foreign loans. This myth is enshrined in neoliberal economics, which is a device for Western exploitation and control of other countries, particularly Ukraine.
Foreign loans are only important to countries that lack the internal resources for development and have to purchase the business know-how, technologies and resources abroad with foreign currencies, which their exports are insufficient to bring in. This is not the case with Russia that has large endowments of resources and a trade surplus.
When central bank credit is used to finance development projects, the supply of rubles increases, but so does output from the projects. Thus, goods and services rise with the supply of rubles. When Russia borrows foreign currencies from abroad, the money supply also increases, but so does the foreign debt.
Recently, Russia and China have agreed on construction of the international transit corridor Europe-Western China, the Eurasian high-speed rail link between Moscow and Beijing, as well as the natural-gas pipeline 'Power of Siberia' that is under construction already. "We are consecutively modernizing the sea, railroad and automobile infrastructure, as well as increasing the carrying capacity of the Baikal-Amur Mainline and the Trans-Siberian trunk railroad, investing considerable funds in the development of the Northern Sea route so that it could become a globally competitive transportation artery," said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It is also important to note growing cooperation of the two countries in the field of space exploration, particularly deliveries of Russian rocket engines to China, in the aircraft industry, namely joint construction of a wide-body airplane, and in the military-technical sphere. Plans are in hand to build the Great Asian Power Ring designed for Russia's electricity supplies. Further, China's CNPC and the Silk Road Fund became co-investors of the Yamal LNG project.
According to analyst and geologist Byron King, over the last few years China has deepened its trading roots with Russia and today China pays for Russian oil in yuan. Russia, in turn, uses yuan to buy goods from China.
Beyond trade in goods, within the past six months Russia has set up a branch of the Bank of Russia in Beijing. From there, Russia can use its Chinese yuan to buy gold on the Shanghai Exchange. In a sense, Chinese-Russian oil trade is now backed up by a "gold standard".
James Rickards, editor of the Strategic Intelligence newsletter, wrote that China has the second largest economy in the world, and is by far the fastest growing major economy in the world. Even though growth rates have fallen from 10% to 6.5% in recent years, that 6.5% growth is still enviable, compared with 2% growth in the United States, and less than 1% growth in Europe. China's debt burdens are manageable as long as the growth is there to support the debt.
Previously, politologist Paul Craig Roberts noted that Henry Kissinger sold U.S. president Trump on a scheme to use the removal of Russian sanctions to pry President Putin away from the alliance with Iran and China. Part of the deal being offered to Vladimir Putin is "increased access to the huge European energy market, restored Western financial credit, access to Western technology, and a seat at the global decision-making table, all of which Russia badly needs and wants". Sweetening the honey trap is official recognition of "Crimea as part of Russia". Russia might want all of this, but it is nonsense that Moscow needs any of it.
Europe has scant alternatives to Russian energy. Russia does not need Western technology. Indeed, its military technology is superior to that in the West. And it is a self-serving Western myth that Russia needs foreign loans. This myth is enshrined in neoliberal economics, which is a device for Western exploitation and control of other countries, particularly Ukraine.
Foreign loans are only important to countries that lack the internal resources for development and have to purchase the business know-how, technologies and resources abroad with foreign currencies, which their exports are insufficient to bring in. This is not the case with Russia that has large endowments of resources and a trade surplus.
When central bank credit is used to finance development projects, the supply of rubles increases, but so does output from the projects. Thus, goods and services rise with the supply of rubles. When Russia borrows foreign currencies from abroad, the money supply also increases, but so does the foreign debt.
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